Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

Winston Churchill

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

Willie Morris

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

William Ruckelshaus

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

William S. Burroughs

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

Virat Kohli

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

W. C. Fields

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

Zachary Levi

I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.

William Hazlitt

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

Wendell Berry

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

Willa Cather

One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.

Willa Cather

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.

Warren Buffett

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Kofi Annan

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

Kofi Annan

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

Kofi Annan

Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

Kenneth Branagh

Adults are just children who earn money.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

Ralph Fiennes

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

Liam Neeson

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

Les Dawson

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

Lee Iacocca

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Lee Iacocca

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

LaToya Jackson

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

LaToya Jackson

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

Terri Clark

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Tennessee Williams

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Lewis Mumford

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Leslie Banks

That has always been it for me: family first.

Neil Peart

Sometimes you're up against everybody in the whole world - even your friends and family are saying, "You need a single." You feel sometimes incredibly alone.